From Okwe Obi, Abuja
The Labour Party (LP) has announced plans to launch a mobile app to fast-track registration of members across the country, ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Its Deputy Director, Media and Communications of the Mobilisation and Integration Directorate, Aju Elumelu, in a statement on Monday, said it was time for the party to transform the operations into a world-class organisation, comparable to international standards.
According to him, the initiative was embarked upon by Director General Marcel Ngogbehei and sent to the National Working Committee (NWC), through the Party’s National Chairman Bar. Julius Abure.
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On receiving the proposal, he said the National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, promised to give the initiative accelerated action, saying that the Party was more focused on building and expanding its structure across the country and preparing to win the 2027 polls with Peter Obi, noting that the app will be the game changer.
He added that the mobile app will facilitate seamless registration from anywhere in the world, provide a platform for direct engagement between party members and leaders, help validate membership data on the go, and could also be a source of verifiable data that the party can use to organise ward, state and national congresses and conventions and also support the polling unit agents management.
“This platform will give the necessary assurances as per the real-time membership figures across the globe at any point in time; giving an indication of the party’s membership and voting strength.
“In today’s digital age, political parties need efficient and modern tools to manage their membership process and data, the directorate asserted that traditional methods of membership registration are often cumbersome and outdated, this traditional method usually involves party members travelling to their various wards with the associated travel cost and risk, extensive paperwork and expensive printing of membership cards by the party, manual data entry, and all this can lead to errors and delays when validating membership status and transmitting Membership data to INEC or showing the membership strength of the Party,” he said.